Design boards more info..............

Thanks for all your great comments on my last post on the design boards..........

This is the you tube video on how I made the design boards. I used hard artist canvas boards (not the ones stretched over a timber frame) Lori used foam core board. I don't have this available locally...........but one day I would like to give it ago........

Also I have done this with good old clag glue instead of the hot glue gun which worked too but you have to wait for it to dry. 

Starch the binding will help too............

I made these in a very short space of time...........bit of a production line.............I use them heaps.........not sure how I lived without them............

I had been putting it off but bit the bullet and bang heaps were done..........why was I waiting.....

Let me know if you make any........

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Design Boards

Been whipping up some design boards............(about 6-7 weeks ago)

braved it and used the hot glue gun...........only burnt myself a couple of times...........all in all pretty good I think.........

Not perfect but fine for me.........

thought I had broken the glue gun...........got Mr Chooky to buy my another one...........then realised I had to keep feeding the glue sticks in.............

woops told you I was inexperienced with them......lol...

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

blue quilt................

Finally it's home and I have seen it all finished................this is the quilt I worked on at my Nundle retreat last year.............I posted about it here............

started off with little pile of fabrics...........

Sue Daleys "Forget Me Knot" range
It was samples pieces Kerry @ Cottage on the Hill had just received hence why my quilt stayed in the shop for quit some time..........

Designed by me.......woohoo........

Quilted by Betty.......thanks heaps Betty love it once again.........

the backing...............love the stripes................

birds on this print..........

I can't remember what I was going to call it.............
Any suggestions?????
anyway it's wonderful it is home............
one for my bed.......

love taking quilts for photo shoots..............

love the stripey bind too...........

Fabric Range Forget me Not by Sue Daley

Quilt Design Chookyblue

Quilted by Betty Field
Name ????

Size 84 x 87inchs

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........

party time almost........

right it's time to put the family on notice.......tell them they are on there own next weekend...........next weekend is dedicated to all things sewing.......it's the Chookshed's 4th birthday 4th-5th June and that means another sewing weekend celebration............so if you can join for a day or the whole weekend......maybe one afternoon.......schedule it in.........

pull out the easy food, pop a champagne and stitch away...........

doesn't matter where you are.........sew on your own or invite a sewing buddy over.........just sew and enjoy the party fun..........share a post to join in.........

it all about 

What are you going to work on????

take care til next time..... Chookyblue.........

1700.......

Can't believe it really............1700 posts.....that's a lot of posts......thousands of pics...........love it............it's still just as exciting to find what I am going to share......see where the other bloggers are from.......read the comments.......leave comments............

it's a little part of the internet that makes me feel part of the world.......while many have come and gone there is still a great core of bloggers who I love to visit..........thanks for your friendship........

take care til next time..... Chookyblue.........

Busy with sheep....

Boring farm post..... Been busy with sheep the last few days...... 

Mustering, drafting, tagging, agent here with several buyers,  selling, trucking more mustering and drafting,  scanning all the ewes for lambs, tomorrow more mustering, tagging.

See boring farm post but I have 2 pics of the ewes going in for an ultrasound scan...... 

Okay busted.... Off to bed early start again..... 

Catch you later..... 

Chookyblue....

random nothingness.............

feeling a little lost the last weeks or more.............finally we have had a change in the season.............summer went and winter came............yippee..........we've lit the fire............nothing terribly exciting to report just time taken up with town work, farm work, bookwork (huge YUCK), catching up, going round in circles........please feel free to skip the rest of the post............I'm even weeks behind in my commenting.........

we've had some great rain at our house but not so great at other properties.....

spent several afternoons burning roley poley............

puts out lots of smoke........

it's a quick intense hot fire.........

spectacular pics......

keep you warm at night..........

mushrooms amaze me.........

bursting open the ground.........

still feeding sheep........I was moving them this day...........felt like the pied piper.........they thought they were getting food.........

moved a mob of cows and had to find hidden babies...............

roley poley to burn.............

finished binding a quilt weeks ago............

got second in the local show...........

yes a random shot..........

the creek full watering the big gums..........

Catch you later.......

Chookyblue.........